misc mail questions OT

[Jeff Thies]

A couple mail questions:

1) While writing links in plain text emails, I tend to enclose the link in
angle brackets:

<http://some_long_address.com/somepage.html>

I've been told in at least one mail client, that clicking on the link causes
the angle brackets to be included in the url (causing 404's).

What's the correct way to prevent line wrapping in url's. Is it time to
ditch the <>?

2) How to include the subject in a mailto link? Is that:

mailto:[email protected]?subject=some_subject?

My recollection is that is bad practice and fails in some clients. Still, I
need to know so I can advise with a caveat.

Cheers,
Jeff

 

[Chet]

| A couple mail questions:
|
| 1) While writing links in plain text emails, I tend to
enclose the link in
| angle brackets:
|
| <http://some_long_address.com/somepage.html>
|
| I've been told in at least one mail client, that clicking on
the link causes
| the angle brackets to be included in the url (causing 404's).
|
| What's the correct way to prevent line wrapping in url's. Is it
time to
| ditch the <>?
|
| 2) How to include the subject in a mailto link? Is that:
|
| mailto:[email protected]?subject=some_subject?
|
| My recollection is that is bad practice and fails in some
clients. Still, I
| need to know so I can advise with a caveat.
|
| Cheers,
| Jeff
|

Jeff,

I'm not sure about 1 but for 2 it should work as you had it but
I've always found inserting %20 for any spaces in the subject
keeps the link from breaking. Here's where I found this info

http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/uri/rfc2368.txt

hth

 

[Toby A Inkster]

1) While writing links in plain text emails, I tend to enclose the link in
angle brackets:

<http://some_long_address.com/somepage.html>

I've been told in at least one mail client, that clicking on the link causes
the angle brackets to be included in the url (causing 404's).

Probably the best way to do this is:
<URL: http://some_long_address.com/somepage.html >

This conforms to standards (yes, there is an RFC for including links in
plain text!) and shouldn't cause problems in most clients.

2) How to include the subject in a mailto link? Is that:

mailto:[email protected]?subject=some_subject?

My recollection is that is bad practice and fails in some clients.
Still, I need to know so I can advise with a caveat.

Why include a subject at all? Surely the person who is sending the e-mail
has a better idea of what the e-mail is about than you do?

 

[Mark Parnell]

Probably the best way to do this is:
<URL: http://some_long_address.com/somepage.html >

Strangely enough, in me newsreader, everything between < and > (i.e.
including the URL: and the space) is underlined, but clicking the link
opens the correct page (when it is a valid link, of course).

Weird.

 

[Mark Parnell]

2) How to include the subject in a mailto link? Is that:

mailto:[email protected]?subject=some_subject?

Use a form. Mailto is broken.